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Here we go again, some new professional certifications achieved yesterday… IBM Certified Database Administrator – DB2 UDB V8.1 for Linux, UNIX and Windows IBM Certified Database Associate – DB2 Universal Database V8.1 Family IBM Certified Administrator for SOA Solutions – WebSphere Process Server V6.0 IBM Certified SOA Associate Finally I got some Information Management certifications [...]

Nice! IBM Certified System Administrator — WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment V6.0 IBM Certified Deployment Professional — WebSphere Process Server V6.0

Some guys from work and me are attending to this years IBM Impact conference in Las Vegas. This will be my first time in Sin City and I’m quite excited about the trip. I’ll try to keep up blogging about both the interesting technical stuff from the conference and my personal impressions about the city. [...]

My colleague Martin got his own blog, finally! He is called Mr. Baseline internally at the company because of he is responsible for the Baseline methodology invented by Zystems. I’m sure that he will come up with a lot of interesting articles about EAI and SOA from a high level point of view.

Ian Vanstone from WebSphere MQ development at IBM Hursley laboratories blogged on the “a Hursley view on WebSphere MQ” blog about design considerations when planning for full repositories in your WebSphere MQ cluster. Ian says: In summary, have exactly two full repositories per cluster unless you have a very good reason and fully interconnect them [...]

IBM has recently changed their design for their professional certification marks and guess what, they look crap. That’s at least my personal opinion about this re-design. That’s the new look for WebSphere: and this for Tivoli: Here is an example for how the logo looked like before: Not that this is very important but I [...]

Hendrik works at the software lab services at Hursley and this is the second time I’ve attended to one of his sessions, last time was in Atlanta 2006. The session was mainly focused on how high availability works within WAS and how you would deploy high available applications in your environment. HA compared to WLM [...]

One more session with Simon, this time about the capabilities to use IBM’s DataPower as an XML firewall in your corporate SOA network. This little colored pizza boxes come with real out of the box security capabilities. They provide a much higher level of security compared to other software based XML parsers as they are [...]

Simon Kapadia held the WAS (WebSphere Application Server) Infrastructure Security Hardening session at this years IBM Transaction & Messaging Technical Conference. Simon explained the following attack levels: -Network -Machine -External Application -Internal Application Isolation WAS V6.1 has improved security hardening by the the meaning “Secure by default” which means that Administrative Security is on by [...]

Tim Dunn who recently was a speaker at our this years “Integration Days” at Zystems held this very interesting session about performance in the WMB. Mainly the whole platform can be seen as 3 key building blocks which are Design, Development and Configuration & Tuning. Different pieces of components need to be reviewed as they [...]

After moving to Linux at home I finally decided to give Linux a try even on my Thinkpad. It’s a T43 so there are no issues with drivers and other stuff, everything just works as expected out of the box. My former colleague and friend Niklas had some more trouble with his T61p when he [...]

Yepp, it’s time again for the IBM Transaction and Messaging Technical Conference 2007 this year in Vienna, Austria. Last year we were in Atlanta this year it’s Vienna. Hopefully we will meet up with all the friends from IBM in Hursley and with the guys from our partner company X-INTEGRATE. We’re going to have our [...]